Lay Pioneering and Thriving in Mission – a New Grove Book
We need to listen more carefully to the experience and gifts of informal, grassroots pioneers, says James Butler, introducing his new Grove book on lay pioneers.
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Learning at and from the edges
A new research project seeks to examine how people grow and learn as followers of Jesus in edgy spaces. James Butler introduces the work.
Of sturgeons and salvation
James Butler travels to the Netherlands for a conference on mission and salvation and returns inspired to search for a shared story of what it means to be “saved”
Setting lay pioneers free?
Have the organisational and grassroots approaches to fresh expressions of church diverged – and what is the impact on the lay pioneers on whom the movement relies?
Where was God absent this week?
At the start of the lent group a question pops up on the screen, ‘Where did you notice God this week?’ I have a slight feeling of guilt and panic that I can’t think of anything.
Lambs among wolves: re-reading Luke 10
Feeling awkward about judgment? James Butler re-reads a classic mission passage and re-imagines the scene from the bottom up.
Dying to Discipleship
Our assumptions about what being a disciple of Jesus means can easily lead to disillusionment, says James Butler.